User:Qchen40/sandbox

Before I start this project, I sent messages to 17 of my friends and family members to ask how they are thinking about me. I asked questions include what do you think my strengths and weaknesses are? What’s my obvious personal traits? What obscure traits that you found about me? What’s my shortcomings that you want me change? Below are the results and analysis of myself as a brand.

Strengths and Weaknesses From all the responses that I get from messaging with friends and family. I think the response from my mother is most valued for me, even their perception with me isn't that correct because the relationship, but how they think about me is most important for me. My mother said she think the good traits for me is obedient and I can do everything by myself. For the obedient part, she likes how I do everything she ask me to do, and also I always help the restaurant work(my family owns a Chinese restaurant, but they didn't hired employees to help, so I started working at restaurant since eighth grade). But for me, I am obedient because their are my parents so I don't want to make them unhappy, I did expect more personal time at the high school years to do thing that I like. So I told my mother how I think back in time, but I also told her that I understand and like to help them as much as I can. The second trait my mother said about me is independent and hands-on, and I do agree with her. I like to do everything by myself back in high school period. I believed I can do everything without other’s help, until I started my college life, I learned about the importance of group work. For the hands-on, I guess she meant that I like to DIY bracelets, curtain, flower, etc. The response from my mother is actually congruence to how I think.

The second responses that I want to mentioned here is from my friend, she’s my roommate from freshman and sophomore year, we know each other well. She told me that she likes my consideration, carefulness, and cleanliness as my strengths. She said when she lived with me, she doesn’t need to think too much about the cleanliness of our room because she knows I will take care of it, and she really likes my consideration and carefulness along the time when we were together. I don’t really feel like I am considerate and carefulness person, I guess the reason why she and some other friends thinking that way is because I like to make people around me to be happy. I don’t really thinking too much when I talked with all my friends, but I did avoid some embarrassing and sad conversation. The weakness that she wanted me change is my laziness of social. I used to be a sad girl back in time, although I am not too sad right now, I don’t really like to social with people, I enjoyed to have some close friends, but I don’t like to social with people that I know we are not going to be close in the future, friends used to call me female otaku.

There’s one weakness no one mentioned, but I know it is my biggest weakness that I have, no assertive. I don’t really show people, even my family and friends, that I am not a assertive person. I know some people think assertion is not a strength or good trait, however, I want to be a assertive person along the time. To be assertion, I mean to be confident at my decision making skills, and the confident to present in front of all the people.

Passions

I do get a lots of different responses about my passions. My parents said I have passions on hands-on, my friends said my passions are on reading, music, and study, etc. Be honest, I have extreme passions on reading, especially novels, all the musics that attracted me, and league of legend game. I like to read, I could continuously spend 10 or more hours to read a interesting book. But my favorite is league of legend. Back in time when I have great passion on league game, I want to be a video game designer, so I took a CS125 course, however, I have no talent on coding. Lately, I found out that I like accounting and business. But I already missed the last chance to transfer to corresponding college, so I transfer to the economic major in order to took some similar courses. Because the course restrict, I couldn’t took the accounting course in the summer, but I will took it next semester even I can’t register it. I guess I am not a well-round person in the college to decide my own future path, but once I found out, I will put all my effort into it to make it happened.

My feature benefit

My weakness is obvious, not confident enough at decision making and not a social person, so I won’t embarrassed myself in the social work. I am not a tough girl who hates everyone, you don’t have to worry about this. Generally, I can say I am a nice girl, with consideration, carefulness, and cleanliness. Maybe my professional knowledge is not enough to support a specific work, but my passionate at learning will definitely let me be accustomed to my work, as Steve said, “if you don't like me, move on to the next guy in line, but if you want a brand that has these qualities, then I think you've found your man”.